Dems' new civility: 'Let's take these son of a bitches out' (updated)

James Hoffa, Jr., warming up a Labor Day crowd in Detroit before President Obama addressed them, issued an apparent call for violence against the Tea Party, calling the peaceful movement "son of a bitches."
"And you see it everywhere, it is the tea party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They've got a war, they got a war with us and there's only going to be one winner. It's going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We're going to win that war."
So far, despite calls for President Obama to rebuke Hoffa, the President, who seized upon the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to posture as civility advocate, has not responded. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, interviewed by Gretchen Carlson on Fox & Friends this morning, was pressed for a reaction to Hoffa's obscene (and ungrammatical) call for violence, and retreated into generalities about policy,...(Read Full Post)